successful blogging and good citations too!

A new post in one of my favorite blogs (”blog of proximal development”) that really resonates with what I have been finding as well. He describes how the blogging in his class really took off, moving to a new level of connectivity and learning. He believes in the same basic ideas that I do about “the conversation of mankind” and constructing knowledge. I will be working on an article for the Writing Lab Newsetter about why this can be such an important experience for writing tutors to have. Our tutor training courses should give students as much experience of true collaboration as possible so that they can be the kind of tutors who make “better writers, not better papers.” One interesting difference between our strategies: I used several different tools to support collaboration: collaborative quizzes, research blogs (linked to each other), group writing workshops, and the wiki project. He does everything with blogs, it seems. It is interesting to think of pros and cons of the different approaches.